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Con Ja Nai

This is the only ANIME CONVENTION that is not a con! Right here at UofM, you can take part in this huge annual screening festival. Don't forget to dress up as your favorite anime character, because we WILL be judging! We encourage you to see the huge list of anime we showed at last year's screening in November.

WHAT is Animania?!

Since its creation in 1980, Animania has gradually become well-known for being the official University of Michigan's source for Japanese animation and film. Over the years, Animania has evolved and expanded, offering more and more things to experience for those interested in anime.

With the undying passion of serving anime for over 20 years, Animania still continues to grow! Here is a link to our comprehensive FAQ that will help you learn more about our culture.

Screenings

August 21st Screening

Posted by: misa^2

AUGUST 2010 SCREENING

Date: August 21, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM to 12:00 AM
Location: Lecture Room 1, Modern Languages Building
University of Michigan, Central Campus, Ann Arbor, Michigan

SCHEDULE:
(Synopses modified from Anime News Network)

4:00: Kamichu
Episodes 1-3
Yurie Hitotsubashi was just an average middle school student, living in the city of Onomichi on Japan's inland sea during the easygoing times of the 1980s. She spent her days worrying about exams and trying to get Kenji, the clueless boy she likes, to notice her. Then during lunch one day, she suddenly announces to her friend Mitsue that the night before, she had become a goddess. Their classmate Matsuri quickly latches on to Yurie’s newfound divinity as a way to promote her family’s bankrupt Shinto shrine. She hopes that replacing their hapless local god, Yashima-sama, with Yurie will make the shrine more popular (and profitable). Now, with Matsuri as her manager, Yurie has to grant wishes, cure curses, meet aliens, and attend god conventions. All while attending school and working up the courage to confess to Kenji.

5:20: Baka to Test to Shokanjuu (Running Series)
Episodes 11-13
Summary of previous episodes:
The system governing control of all the avatars in the school is hacked. Fortunately, Akihisa's special avatar runs separately, so the school turns to him to defeat the rogue avatars- and push his friends into supplementary lessons. Akihisa's sister returns to town, refusing to let go of her great and undying love for her little brother. In order to be rid of her watchful gaze, Akihisa attempted to prove that he could live and study alone, but failed a test completely after accidentally moving all the answers up by one position. Class F's cardboard box desks are used to pack away the next exam, but the contents of the desks end up packed with the tests. After breaking in to the school vault to get their possessions back, they discover that someone stole the test answers, and they prevent the thief from cheating by spreading the answers to the entire school.

6:35: Working!!
Episodes 1-3
In a family restaurant in Hokkaido, the northern prefecture of Japan, 16 year old high school student Takanashi Souta works part-time along with his strange co-workers, including Taneshima Poplar, a high school girl who's a year older than Souta who's easily mistaken for a elementary/middle schooler, and Shirafuji Kyouko the 28-year old store manager who doesn't bother to do any work at all.

7:50: Break
Get some food, chat with staff or attendees about current season anime, or take a peek at a little of otaku culture with It Came From IRC, where we play back some of the funniest, most intriguing, or simply most bizarre videos the staff has come across.

8:45: Durarara (Sponsored by Crunchyroll) (Running Series)
Episodes 10-12
Summary of previous episodes:
It is revealed in a flashback, that Namie learned that Seiji loved the head their uncle kept in a jar. Later in that flashback, Seiji tells Namie that he killed Harima after she discovered the head. Namie tells Seiji that she attached Celty's head to Harima's corpse for Seiji. In the present, Seiji and Harima are in the park, and she drops his phone in a fountain. Namie becomes nervous because she can't contact Seiji, and asks Izaya to find him. Harima receives a message on her cell phone saying she is being pursued and attempts to run with Seiji. They pass Celty and Shizuo; Celty pursues them after recognizing Harima's face as her own. Shizou stops Seiji and becomes infuriated at how Seiji says he loves Harima. After stabbing Shizou, Seiji chases after the two women. Harima bumps into Mikado, who helps her escape. Shizuo catches Seiji, and shortly after, the police apprehend Seiji. Namie assures Seiji that she will retrieve Harima.

10:00: Raffle
We'll be giving away two one-month Crunchyroll Premium Anime Memberships thanks to our sponsor, as well as plenty of anime merchadise donated by Wizzywig Collectibles.

Crunchyroll is an anime translation and streaming site which brings current season anime right to your PC. You can find them, as well as watch all the shows we screen that are sponsored by them, at http://www.crunchyroll.com/.

Wizzywig Collectibles is a locally owned anime and Japanese merchandise shop. They can be found at 4720 South State Rd., Ann Arbor, MI, 48108, or you can order online at http://www.wizzywig.com/.

10:15: Trigun
Episodes 1-3
Vash the Stampede is a gunman on the run with a 60 billion double dollar bounty on his head, which has made it difficult for him to go anywhere without being chased and shot at. Every town he ever visits ends up being destroyed because of his pursuers, but miraculously no one ever gets killed. Meryl and Milly are two insurance agents that have been sent to find Vash the Stampede and keep him under surveillance so he causes no more damage. Meryl, who leads the pair, refuses to believe that the man they have met can possibly be the legendary gunman. This spikey haired, gangly, young man is extremely friendly, a pacifist, hates blood and suicide, absolutely loves donuts, and is a dork and a crybaby (far from a notorious outlaw). But there is more to Vash and his past than meets the eye.

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Welcome to Summer 2010!

I'm sure everyone is glad that finals are over, and we're finally free from the shackles of 9am classes and blue books. Now that it's summer, we're looking forward to continuing our monthly screenings for four more solid months of excellent anime. For our summer session, we usually have less people on staff than our screenings during the school year, but we're all still excited to share our passion for anime with all of you!

Our runners for Spring/Summer are Durarara and Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu. Look forward to improvements to our MST3k format during break, along with a brand new sponsor.

Until we get the calendar working again, here are the tentative screening dates for Spring/Summer: May 22, June 19, July 17, and August 21. Watch this space for confirmation of our screening dates and more exciting details as the days get longer and the weather gets hotter!

Temporary site maintenance

The Animania website will be undergoing maintenance over the next week. Please do not be alarmed if something breaks while you are browsing our site. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Server Upgrade

The server was upgraded on April 03, 2010. The old server ran this site fine, but this server should be powerful enough to handle any growth this site will have for quite a while to come :)

Japan Lecture Series

Thank you everyone for coming to our Japan Lecture Series we've been hosting every month during break. For those who weren't able to make it, watch this space for updates every month with everything you've missed (mostly).

February: Japanese Valentine's Day
We showed episode 19 of Hime Chan's Ribbon as a precursor to Japanese Valentine's Day. The fansub group that subbed the series is honobono.

We will be updating this space with links to more material from other months soon.

New Decade 2010!!!

Welcome to Michigan 2010! I hope everyone is enjoying the lovely weather we're having. With the bitter memories of the football season behind us, we can now focus on our favorite spring sport: Basketball!

Jokes aside, we hope everyone enjoyed last semester, and we have some big plans for this semester also. We will be continuing our peek into Japanese culture during breaks, along with bringing two new runners this semester: Nodame Cantabile and Kuroshitsuji. We hope to reach a broader audience of anime fans this semester, so we'll be showing a blockbuster anime movie at every screening, so bring your friends!